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BuildIts in Progress: June 2015
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June 7, 2015. Spindle and Headstock Machining. Machining the spindle turned out to be kind of a disaster, but I was mostly able to salvage things. Some design notes about the spindle:. The spindle is extremely disproportionately large in diameter for a lathe of this size, and for good reason. The bore through the spindle is .875" in diameter. A stock taig spindle has a bore of just over .375", so this will be able to hold much longer large pieces of stock. The quickest and most repeatable way I found to ...
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Two Wheels to the Future: November 2014
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Two Wheels to the Future. Revolutionizing personal transportation one bike at a time. Monday, November 3, 2014. Solar Panels on Electric Bikes? First, the best case scenario. A bike rack over the rear wheel can hold a solar panel approximately 12" wide by 18" long. The sunniest place in North America is Inyokem California in the high desert, where it is sunny 355 days a year. They receive 7.7kWh of sunlight energy per square meter on the average day. Which gives us our average range of 13.8km. Which is o...
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Two Wheels to the Future: MIT Mini Maker Faire
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Two Wheels to the Future. Revolutionizing personal transportation one bike at a time. Saturday, November 1, 2014. MIT Mini Maker Faire. Following the trend of DerpyBike and Herpybike this is known as eNanoHerpyBike. There were a surprising number of tricycles. Most of these are made at MITERS, aka the MIT Departament of Silly Go Karts. A seriously overpowered and scarily low RC motor tricycle. A very narrow tricycle powered by an electric chainsaw. I don't understand how it goes around corners. One of th...
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make everything: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013. After much wishing I had some hardy tools. I made some hardy tools. These tools fit in the square hole in an anvil. Hole sizes are nonstandard, so its often worthwhile to make your own. Smiths typically make their own tools anyway. Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Device For Converting Motion". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Device For Converting Motion. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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orange narwhals: Fab Lab Shop Components List / Inventory
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Projects blog (*wave* Hi, I'm Nancy, aka nouyang). Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Fab Lab Shop Components List / Inventory. I keep losing the link to this list, so here it is:. Http:/ fab.cba.mit.edu/about/faq/. Http:/ fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fab/inv.html. Posted by Nancy Ouyang. Tuesday, June 03, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Feminism, open source hardware, hexapods, mental health, entrepreneurship, liveaboard, uke, nyancat, sleep, hackathons, piano. MIT 2A-6 2013, EC putz, MITERS, p.irateship. Field ...
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BuildIts in Progress: Cutting a Rack Gear on a Bridgeport
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May 20, 2015. Cutting a Rack Gear on a Bridgeport. I considered buying a little metric rack gear for the lathe on SDP-SI, but it would have cost around $30. Instead, I figured out how to machine one on the MITERS. Turns out, though, if the mill is angled between 90 degrees and 90 minus the pressure angle of the gear, the teeth actually come out perfectly shaped. Here's why:. Here's what it looks like in practice:. I machined a .1" pitch rack out of some aluminum to make sure the process worked:. But I'm ...
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make everything: February 2013
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Monday, February 18, 2013. 160;The carbon fiber foam laminate broke in a place where it had already been weakened by holes. I heard from Josh. That hed been working on kites. Josh flies the kite that he and laura made (2.3m nasa para wing). A few more hooked knives. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Wood things, rolling things. I slept a whole lot this IAP. While I wasnt sleeping, I got a few things done. . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A few more hooked knives. Wood things, rolling things.
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make everything: April 2013
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Sunday, April 28, 2013. Huge Kite (10.9 M 2 Nasa Para Wing). Muffin and Me just finished sewing up our enormous kite. Its a scaled up version of the one. He had made before. Last Summer, I hastily cut a tricopter frame from carbon fiber foam laminate. The stock Id found wasnt large enough to make the whole thing, so I attached the arms with 4-40 nylon cap screws. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. I cut out some roof panels for the yurt after doing some (very) approximate trig. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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BuildIts in Progress: July 2014
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July 17, 2014. Various Updates to the Tiny Go-Kart. Over the past several months, the one-day kart. Has seen lots of use and received a number of slight upgrades. Its light weight, relatively low power, and low top speed make it an excellent vehicle to demo for other students and people visiting MITERS. At least a dozen strangers have driven the kart around the hallways of N52. User reviews include "that kart made my day! Stay tuned for more vehicular silliness soon. Posted by Ben Katz. July 4, 2014.
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BuildIts in Progress: Compound Slide
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May 19, 2015. School's over, so it's time to catch up on documentation. The lathe isn't finished yet, but I've made a lot of progress. Sadly, I won't have shop access. This summer, so the lathe won't get finished until August or September. The compound was made from two pieces, a dovetail slide which holds the ball nut, and a cone-shaped base. The two pieces were silver-soldered together. The cone is clamped pulled down by a pair of set screws, the ends of which are turned to 45 degree cones:.
